Speeding Motorcycle of My Heart, Speeding Motorcycle Let's Be Smart
Via Fark, Nevada's legislators are preventing homeowners' associations from ticketing motorcyclists.
The move is designed to prevent homeowners' boards from banning motorcycles on aesthetic or other grounds.
[Rep. Francis] Allen's measure also bans associations from using radar guns or any "other device designed to gauge the speed of a vehicle" for the purpose of issuing fines. The provision, in effect, stops associations from issuing speeding tickets within a community. In 2005, a Texas state legislator proposed a bill that would have given a green light to community speeding tickets. The proposal failed.
The rights alotted to motorcycle riders are good acid test of whether a state is going overboard stopping consensual or "aesthetic" crimes. In 2005, Jacob Sullum explained why motorcyle helmet laws haven't quite swept the nation.